Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast

by Sam Cherington & Will Morey

What is it with *third* movies? Why can't trilogies ever seem to stick the landing? Why is it Part 3 when franchises gearshift to Tokyo Drifting or Season of the Witching? Why did it take three whole movies for Jason to find his hockey mask?! Join hosts Will Morey and Sam Cherington as they break down the best and worst movies ever made that came after two other movies. Nothing is off limits... they're watching the good, the b ...   ...  Read more
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Podcast episodes

  • Season 3

  • Superman III / Superman Returns

    Superman III / Superman Returns

    S03 E02
    01:30:06

    It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an all-new episode of Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast! And it's a DC Comics double feature as Will and Sam take on the very silly Superman III, aka Superman meets Richard Pryor. And if that's not enough, they're also talking about the deeply frustrating and problematic Superman Returns. While the Man of Steel takes on Brainiac (kind of), Bizarro (not really) and Lex Luthor (canceled), the boys discuss the bumpy cinematic journey of the most iconic superhero of all time, question the damage Five for Fighting has done to the Superman brand, and Sam offers his recasting of Superman Returns with the best that 2006 Hollywood has to offer. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

  • The Muppets Take Manhattan

    The Muppets Take Manhattan

    S03 E01
    45:32

    Together again! It's a new year and a new season of Podcast Part 3: The Part 3 Podcast, and we're taking the show to Broadway with 1984's The Muppets Take Manhattan, an honestly kind of bland entry in the Muppets pantheon... turns out you need a pretty strong story to make the Muppets work, and failing that you need a Charles Grodin or a Michael Caine to bring the gravitas. Sadly, like Jason Voorhees, the Muppets just simply aren't up to the task of taking Manhattan. But we love them anyway. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

  • Season 2

  • Psycho III

    Psycho III

    S02 E11
    57:40

    Happy Halloween! It's the end of Spooky Threequel Month, but there's nothing new from Michael Myers to talk about, so instead we're renting a cabin at that little motel off the highway to talk about Psycho III. Oh yeah, they made sequels to Psycho, and they're surprisingly not bad! While Norman Bates deals with his mommy issues, Will and Sam discuss the perils of remaking and sequelizing Hitchcock, the various cinematic influences that made their way into actor Anthony Perkins' directorial debut, and speculate on whether Jeff Fahey's sleazy/friendly/crazy character was originally two or even three separate people in the original script. Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

  • Child's Play 3

    Explicit

    Child's Play 3

    S02 E10
    47:49
    Explicit

    Spooky Threequel Month continues as Will and Sam dare to f*ck with the Chuck by watching Child's Play 3, the unfortunate low point in the otherwise surprisingly consistent, long-running, never retconned Child's Play/Chucky franchise. While following cinema's greatest killer doll on yet another rampage, the boys discuss the 90s trope of military schools, sing the praises of Brad Dourif, and Will repeatedly confuses Mena Suvari and Thora Birch (neither of whom are in this movie). Music: Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

  • Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

    Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

    S02 E09
    58:48

    Hope you came to the podcast hungry, 'cause Will and Sam are sitting down for a Texas-style barbecue with the Sawyer family in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, a movie that sort of has Leatherface in it. Between courses, Will watches the original two TCMs for the first time, Sam unpacks the franchise's FOUR continuities, and they discuss whether or not this threequel lives up to the bugnuts legacy of Tobe Hooper's first two massacres. Backbeat by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/) via Creative Commons license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)